Chevron Buys Texas Ranch to Dodge Lawsuit, Wind Blade Graveyards & Musk's Space AI | BDE 02.13.26

Kirk, Chuck, and Mark cover Chevron's settlement to buy a West Texas ranch rather than face trial over decades of alleged pollution, Ken Paxton's lawsuit against a fiberglass recycling site turned wind turbine blade graveyard, and Elon Musk's plan to put AI data centers in space powered by solar panels. They debate whether the space data center concept is real or just Musk messing with software guys, discuss BP suspending share buybacks to reduce debt after their energy transition distraction, and reflect on Expand Energy leaving Oklahoma City nearly a decade after Aubrey McClendon's death, marking the end of an era for the company he built.

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00:00 - Welcome and first concert stories
02:11 - Chevron West Texas ranch settlement
08:27 - Environmental litigation implications
11:12 - Wind turbine blade graveyard lawsuit
17:23 - Green energy waste problem
19:02 - Elon Musk's space AI data centers
24:24 - Building data centers in space
27:35 - Earth's electricity limitations
30:55 - Space compute infrastructure race
33:16 - BP suspends share buybacks
37:38 - Expand Energy leaving Oklahoma City
41:19 - Houston's oil and gas consolidation

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